T he book, to which the prominent Assyriologist and Hebraist Géza Komoróczy (b.1937) devoted ten ... more T he book, to which the prominent Assyriologist and Hebraist Géza Komoróczy (b.1937) devoted ten years, aims at no less than providing a full scale picture of the history of the Hungarian Jews. When turning the pages of this monumental, two and a half thousand page long work, we have to be impressed and lost in admiration, since we are undoubtedly encountering the opus magnum of an outstanding scholar. We are looking at a work which should be found on the bookshelves of all who are interested in this topic. Most likely there is no one in Hungary who has the same deep and detailed knowledge of the history of the Hungarian Jews as Professor Komoróczy. And rarely can a similar venture be found, where the author all by himself undertakes to treat such a comprehensive subject synthetically. That is why our attention has been drawn and we have thought it worthwhile to deal with this work. The two volumes, each one richly illustrated on approximately 1000 pages, cover the whole history of the Hungarian Jews, from the very beginnings to 1848/49, the year of the Hungarian revolution in the first volume and then, in the second one, from 1849 to recent days.
T he book, to which the prominent Assyriologist and Hebraist Géza Komoróczy (b.1937) devoted ten ... more T he book, to which the prominent Assyriologist and Hebraist Géza Komoróczy (b.1937) devoted ten years, aims at no less than providing a full scale picture of the history of the Hungarian Jews. When turning the pages of this monumental, two and a half thousand page long work, we have to be impressed and lost in admiration, since we are undoubtedly encountering the opus magnum of an outstanding scholar. We are looking at a work which should be found on the bookshelves of all who are interested in this topic. Most likely there is no one in Hungary who has the same deep and detailed knowledge of the history of the Hungarian Jews as Professor Komoróczy. And rarely can a similar venture be found, where the author all by himself undertakes to treat such a comprehensive subject synthetically. That is why our attention has been drawn and we have thought it worthwhile to deal with this work. The two volumes, each one richly illustrated on approximately 1000 pages, cover the whole history of the Hungarian Jews, from the very beginnings to 1848/49, the year of the Hungarian revolution in the first volume and then, in the second one, from 1849 to recent days.
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